21 Facts About Ruhr District

Ruhr, referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Ruhr District area has no administrative centre; each city in the area has its own administration, although there exists the supracommunal "Regionalverband Ruhr District" institution in Essen.

For 2010, the Ruhr District region was one of the European Capitals of Culture.

Urban landscape of the Ruhr District extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif.

The inclusion of four mainly rural districts in the otherwise mainly industrial Ruhr helps to explain the large proportion of agricultural and forested land.

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In many places however, the borders between cities in the central Ruhr District are unrecognizable, blending into one urban landscape due to continuous development across them.

Ruhr District'story has no established name for this phase of the industrial revolution, but one could call it the early water-powered industrial revolution.

The general strike effectively ended the Kapp government, but in the Ruhr District, striking workers successfully managed to take government buildings in March 1920 shocking the rest of Germany.

The workers councils that led the uprising declared the Ruhr District to be a socialist republic, but the Freikorps and Reichswehr put down the rebellion in April 1919, and re-established the Weimar Republic's control of the Ruhr District.

However, the occupation of the Ruhr District caused several direct and indirect consequences on the German economy and government.

Ruhr District was at the centre of the German economic miracle Wirtschaftswunder of the 1950s and 1960s, as very rapid economic growth created a heavy demand for coal and steel.

The Ruhr District region was hardest hit, as the easy-to-reach coal mines became exhausted, and German coal was no longer competitive.

The Ruhr River is only one of half a dozen rivers in the Ruhr district, in addition to the Rhine.

Ruhr District has an oceanic climate in spite of its inland position, with winds from the Atlantic travelling over the lowlands to moderate temperature extremes, in spite of its relatively northerly latitude that sees significant variety in daylight hours.

Ruhr District is known for its numerous cultural institutions, many of which enjoy international reputation.

Ruhr District has three major opera houses and more than 10 theaters and stages.

The UA Ruhr District has three liaison offices for interested students in New York City, Moscow and Sao Paulo.

The Ruhr District region is well-integrated into the national rail system, the Deutsche Bahn, for both passenger and goods services, each city in the region has at least one or more train stations.

Ruhr District area contains the longest tram system in the world, with tram and Stadtbahn services from Witten to Krefeld as well as the Rhine-Ruhr District S-Bahn network.

Ruhr District has one of the densest motorway networks in all of Europe, with dozens of Autobahns and similar Schnellstraßen crossing the region.

Dortmund Airport in the Eastern Ruhr District is a mid-sized airport, offering scheduled flights to domestic and European destinations and its approximately 1.